阅读理解 Animals, including insects, do not have a language like ours. They do - 初中英语试题 - 超级试练试题库

阅读理解       Animals, including insects, do not have a language like ours. They do not talk to each other in words
or sentences. But if we watch them, we can see that they do have ways of communicating.
       Can you see the rabbits" tail. When rabbits see this white tail moving up and down, they are warning
each other to run. They know that there is danger. The rabbit has told them something without making
many other animals use this kind of language. When a cobra is angry, it raises its sound. It has given them
a signal and makes itself look fierce. This warns other animals. When a bee has found some food, it goes
back to its home. It cannot tell the other bees where the food is by speaking to them, but it does a little
dance in the air. This tells the bees where the food is. Some animals say things by making sound. A dog
barks, for example when a stranger comes near. A cat purrs when pleased. Some birds make several
different sounds, each with its own meaning.
       Sometimes we human beings speak in the same way. We make sounds like " Oh" or " Ah!" when we are frightened or pleased or when we drop something on our toes. Of things, actions, feelings or ideas, we are able to give each other all kinds of different. But we have something that no animals have a large
number of words which have the meanings, information in words and sentences, which no other animals
can do. No other animals have so wonderful a language as we have.1. Which of the following statements is true according to the passage?A. Animals do have a language like that of human beings.
B. Bees communicate with each other by dancing
C. Some animals can use words.
D. Animals are brave.2. A rabbit uses its tail to _______.A. warn other rabbits of danger
B. tell other rabbits where food is
C. make itself look fierce
D. help it to run fast3. When a cobra in angry, is _______.A. makes a loud noise
B. raises its hood
C. moves up and down
D. does a little dance4. Several different sounds can be made by a     ____.A. rabbit
B. bee
C. bird
D. cat5. From the passage we know that          __ can use words and sentence to express ideas and thoughts.A. all living things
B. human beings
C. some birds
D. all animals

1-5 B A A C B

完型填空： The Chinese diet is considered（认为）to be the healthiest in the world. It contains a lot of fruit
and green ___1___. It is rich in fibre and ___2___in sugar and fat. The Chinese eat less sugar than
people in many other ___3___in the world. That is why lots of people in China have healthy white
___4___. People in the Western world do not eat such healthy foods. They eat too ___5___
fat and sugar and don’t take ___6___exercise. Because of this, they put on weight very ___7___.
Their diet contains a lot of fat in the form of potato crisps, potato chips, butter, cream and chocolate.
They ___8___a lot of sugar in the form of cakes, soft drinks, sweets and so on. The ___9___is that
many of them become fat. And some have bad teeth. In some ___10___of Britain, one person in ten,
by the age of thirty, has no teeth left!

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(     )1. A. plants
(     )2. A. high
(     )3. A. plac es
(     )4. A. bodies
(     )5. A. many
(     )6. A. some
(     )7. A. easily
(     )8. A. like
(     )9. A. question
(     )10.A. place

B. vegetables
B. rich
B. cities
B. faces
B. much
B. any
B. easy
B. eat
B. reason
B. houses

C. food
C. low
C. states
C. teeth
C. good
C. enough
C. well
C. want
C. result
C. parts

D. things
D. little
D. countries
D. tooth
D. best
D. many
D. good
D. enjoy
D. trouble
D. cities

完形填空

       There are many different ways of seeing a town for the first time. One of them is to walk around it, guide-book in hand. Of course, we may   1   with our guide-books the history and special developments of a town and get to know them.  2   then, if we take our time and   3   in a town for a while, we may get to know it better. When we   4   it as a whole, we begin to have some   5   , which even the best guide-books do not answer. Why is the town just   6   this, this shape, this plan, this size? Why do its streets   7   in this particular way, and not in any   8   way?
       Here even the best guide-book fails us. One can’t find in it the information about how a town has developed to the   9   appearance. It may not describe the original (最初的) design of a town. However, one may get some idea of what it  10   look like by walking around the town. One can also imagine  11   the town was first planned and built. Then one can learn more about in what direction the town   12   to develop.
       What is the point of studying towns in this way? For me, it is simply that one gets a greater depth of pleasure by visiting and seeing a town with one’s own eyes. A   13   visit to a town may help one better understand why it is attractive  14   just reading about it in a guide-book.

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(     )1. A. write
(     )2. A. But
(     )3. A. march
(     )4. A. look at
(     )5. A. ideas
(     )6. A. of
(     )7. A. open
(     )8. A. one
(     )9. A. old
(     )10. A. used to
(     )11. A. what
(     )12. A. stops
(     )13. A. costly
(     )14. A. from

B. study
B. Before
B. work
B. look after
B. opinions
B. for
B. run
B. more
B. normal
B. seemed to
B. how
B. appears
B. formal
B. than

C. tell
C. Since
C. stay
C. look for
C. feelings
C. like
C. begin
C. other
C. first
C. had to
C. when
C. starts
C. group
C. through

D. remember
D. Until
D. wait
D. look up
D. questions
D. as
D. move
D. such
D. present
D. happened to
D. where
D. continues
D. personal
D. with

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                                                 The History of the English Dictionary
     In 1746, Samuel Johnson began to work on his most famous book, the Dictionary of the English Language. It took him nine years to complete and in that time, he wrote meanings for more than 40,000 words.
It was the first English dictionary to include so many words.
     Johnson was born in Staffordshire, Britain in 1709. His father was a bookseller and the family was not
very rich. Johnson was a very clever student and he went to Oxford University in 1728. After Oxford,
he became a school teacher but he was not happy about his job. In 1735, he married a woman named
Elizabeth Porter. He was twenty-five years old and she was forty-six.
     A few years after that, Johnson got a job to write the English dictionary. He worked in a house in
London and he had six men to help him. To write the dictionary, Johnson looked for words used by the
important English writers in those days. He underlined the sentences where the words were used and
wrote them in his notebooks. Then he gave his notebooks to his workers and they wrote the words and
the sentences out neatly. After that, they put the words in order according to the English alphabet. Once
that was done, Johnson would write the meanings for the words.
     When it was completed, the Dictionary of the English Language became famous and it was used by
many people in that time. Johnson was a happy man because of that, but his wife died before the
dictionary was completed and she never got to share her husband"s happiness.
     Johnson died in London in 1784. In his lifetime, he not only wrote the Dictionary of the English
Language but he also wrote many poems and famous articles.

1. When Johnson started to work on the Dictionary of the English Language he was ____

    A. poor
    B. thirty-seven years old
    C. a school teacher
    D. a clever student

2. Elizabeth Porter ______.

    A. was older than Johnson by twenty-one years
    B. helped Johnson to get the dictionary writing job
    C. was a sick woman
    D. died before the dictionary was completed because she was too old

3. The Dictionary of the English Language was the first ______.

    A. dictionary to include so many words
    B. dictionary in the world
    C. dictionary that was written in England
    D. English dictionary to have 40,000 words

4. It took ______ people ______ years to complete the Dictionary of the English Language.

    A. eight; nine
    B. six; nine
    C. six; seven
    D. seven; nine

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     London"s River Thames has twenty-seven bridges. But Tower Bridge, the first bridge over the
Thames as you travel to London from the sea,is the most famous of them all. What makes Tower
Bridge so exciting? Why do visitors come from all over the world to see it?
    The thing that is surprising about Tower Bridge is that it is open in the middle. It does this to let the
big ships through to the Pool of London.lf you are lucky enough to see the bridge with its two opening
arms high in the air,you will never forget it.
    On its north side stands the Tower of London it self.Although they look the same age,the Tower is
almost a thousand years old,and Tower bridge is only about one hundred, It was built in the 1890s.
By1850, everyone agreed that a bridge across the Thames near the Tower was most necessary. But
the designers argued about the new bridge for another  thirty years.This took so long because they had
two big problems.

l. Tower Bridge is ______.
A. about one thousand years old
B. the oldest and the most famous bridge in London
C. the first one you can see when you go from the sea to London
D. the one that took workers about 30 years to build
2. The Tower of London is ______.
A. across from the Thames
B. on the north of Tower Bridge
C. in the middle of Tower Bridge
D. much younger than Tower Bridge
3.Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage?
A. You can see the bridge with its two opening arms high in the air at anytime.
B. By 1850 everybody thought it most necessary to have a bridge built across the
Thames near the Tower.
C. It took the designers thirty years to argue about the bridge before it was built.
D. It was no easy thing to build a bridge near the Tower.
4. Why is the bridge open in the middle?
A. To make it special.
B. To attract (吸引) more people from the world to see it.
C. To let the big ship through to the Pool of London.
D. BeCduse it is so long that has to be divided into two parts.
5. How long was the Tower Bridge built?
A. A thousand years.
B. A hundred years.
C. Five thousand years.
D. Five hundred years.

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